Patty's Stamping Spot

David Cook - or Jason Bennett ?

Just a quick non-stamping post today...

This is something fun I posted in May 2008 when David Cook was all the rage on American Idol... people would stop our son and say, "WOW, you look like David Cook!"  :)

Yep, I'm an American Idol fan.. it's the only weekly TV show I won't miss (well aside from Selling New York!!).... see what you think... I think Jason and David look a lot alike!

 

DAVID COOK (left)                                 JASON BENNETT (right)

 

 

 

  

 

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Happy 20th Birthday Jason!

My son is DELIGHTING in reminding me that as of today, I no longer have a teenager anymore...aaaaaaaaaaaaaah how can THAT BE??

Today my baby turns 20 !!!  Happy Birthday Jason! You are the most wonderful and precious gift from God.. we love you!!

Here is an MDS (My Digital Studio) birthday card I made for Jason... he has a silly sense of humor so I know he'll appreciate this.. I made an Easter card like this for him one year using the Stampin' Up! Chocolate Bunny stamp, but this time I used MDS to create the card and the mirror image Chocolate Bunny.

get it... someone ate the ears off the chocolate bunny so he can't hear? :)

If you've used the Chocolate Bunny stamp or the MDS image, you'll notice that the bunny is an "outline image", so to make it look like solid chocolate, I added Creamy Caramel oval and circle shapes behind the outline (see image at right)

 

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Fun Flowers Birthday Card!

We celebrated Joy's birthday in our stamp class last week... and I made this  Stampin' Up! card for her.. she loves fun bright colors.... just like her! :)

Color combo... Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight and Basic Black.. zipppppy!

aaaaaaaaaand you guessed it.. my favorite new Big Shot die from the Stampin' Up! Occasions Mini catalog...

Fun Flowers Bigz L Die, #121812, $32.95, pg 39 Occasions Mini Catalog

 We celebrated with a Red Velvet Cake... yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

(no.. i didn't make it.... but Costco did)  :)

It was fun celebrating with you at Red Lobster, too!

and I had LOBSTER PIZZA ... oh my goodness sinfully good!

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Christmas 2010 at the Bennett house

We had a wonderful Christmas, and we hope you did too!

I had a fabulous relaxing afternoon scrapbooking some photos from our

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

using My Digital Studio...

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Merry Christmas from the Bennett Family!

As you know I love creating projects in My Digital Studio... here is our 2010 Christmas card I created using MDS...  Merry Christmas to you and your families...and Blessings for a Bright 2011 !

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prepping the cards.... thanks to help from my hubby they all got out a week early!

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Winners of the Blog Candy Free Stamp Sets!

Thank you to everyone who left a very kind comment with your name, city, state, and the set you wanted in a comment on my blog, in response to my BLOG CANDY post over the weekend!! 

Wow... I'll tell ya.... Day of Gratitude is sure a POPULAR request!!!  You all love that set as much as I do! Great news is... it's still available until Jan. 4th :)  What a gorgeous set! And I have the images downloaded in My Digital Studio so I'm going to use it for years to come :)

 

set 1: Punched Posies  -  Cheryl from Los Angeles, CA

set 2: Picture This  -  Paula Riley from Pasadena, MD

set 3: Because I Care  -   Lorrie Simons from Lexington, SC

set 4: Day of Gratitude  -  Jan Schoenfeld from Highlands Park, CO

WINNERS: email me with your mailing address and I'll be happy to get your stamp set on its way to you!

And just a BENNETT UPDATE:  Yesterday was my 5 weeks post surgery day.. I've been doing better and better each day, and wanted to thank all of you who check in on me and send me cards and greetings.. you are all so sweet!!  And a huge THANK YOU to all of my customers who helped keep my business going when I couldn't get out and do events out of the house!  You all ROCK!

And on another note.. if anyone knows of any Structural Engineering firms looking for help in their drafting departments, please let us know.. my huband was told that his job is being terminated. He's only worked for 2 firms in 33 years so the job market is a NEW WORLD for us!  Prayers gladly accepted, too!

 

 

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Artistic Etchings - Anniversary Card

We recently celebrated our wedding anniversary ... 24 years of being married to my fabulous 6 foot 4 man ...  it's been a JOURNEY...  a JOURNEY because we've traveled to places with Stampin' Up! that we NEVER dreamed we'd ever visit...  so... this was the anniversary card I made for him with that thought in mind...

 

Places we've been together, during my 15 year Journey with Stampin' Up!: Panama Canal, Eastern Caribbean, Western Caribbean, Yucatan Peninsula, Bermuda, Alaska, NYC, Seattle, St. Louis, San Diego, Los Angeles, Florida, Salt Lake City and probably more than i'm not remembering.

Supplies I used:

• Sentimental Journey stamp set (pg 22 Summer Mini Catalog) #118513
• Travel Journal DSP (pg 23 Summer mini) #117156
• Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Bashful Blue
• Ink: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler

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Eric's iPad Birthday Celebration

Ah yes, the iPad Birthday celebration.... thanks to my wonderful bonus from Stampin' Up! last week I was able to buy my hubby an iPad for his bday ...  he had a BIG WISH and I was so happy I could make it come true by getting the iPad for him! 

This was the card I made for him, inspired by the fabulously talented Mary Brown!

We had a nice casual day celebrating his birthday and capped it off with a nice dinner at Outback with friends... We didn't get a photo with all of us but we did get one with Mindy.  Mindy gave us all some great tutorials about how the iPad works and the amazing things it is capable of .. wow.. TECHNOLOGY is amazing ...

We enjoyed a little celebrating and he loved his iPad.. whoohooo!

Here is the inside of the card.... i actually printed the inside polkdot paper in MDS since I wanted it to be a lighter shade of Concord Crush... amazing how you can combine MDS and real live stamping..

Yes, those are rhinestones on the candle flames.. I LOVE those little self sticky rhinestones! (see pg 188).

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend... see ya!

 

 

 

  

Convention 2010, the Apple iPad and Eric's Birthday

Here's the Story of the Apple iPad, my hubby's birthday and the Stampin' Up! Convention 2010... yes.. they are related in a funny sort of way...

My hubby has wanted the Apple iPad for a couple months now.. unfortunately, we could not quite afford to buy one prior to the Stampin' Up! Cruise in April when he really wanted it... but.. thanks to Stampin' Up! I was able to buy him one for this birthday this week!

At the Stampin' Up! Convention 2010 last week I kept seeing ladies with the iPad.. finally I sat down at a table with about 1/2 a dozen delightful demonstrators and asked them to give me an iPad tutorial... they all whipped out their iPads and showed me the amazing things you can do on it, including placing your orders right online at a workshop.. ok,, HOW COOL IS THAT!?  Here are two of my new iPad friends Louann Fisher and Cindy Cort .. they had my blog bookmarked on their iPad, and brought up my blog post about my MDS Owl card, and displayed my Owl card that I had just swapped with them... how cute is that? :)

So then the a couple nights later, when my hubby and son were still in SLC after Awards Night, I saw Dina with her iPad and asked her to give Eric a tutorial on everything it is capable of doing... here they are in the Marriott lobby..

 

She even made sure he had some fun with a driving game!  I think Rose Ellen is entertained too! :)

 

Thanks Dina, for helping convince Eric that he'd like one of these fun toys...  thanks to my Stampin' Up! bonus, I was able to buy him the Apple iPad this week for his birthday!!  :)  As I type this, we are getting ready to open his gifts and go out to dinner to celebrate, so I'll have pix of his birthday tomorrow... stay tuned.. and thanks to my iPad friends at Convention for your fun tutorials!  :)

 

 

Bee followup

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who commented on the BEE STORY ... I was a little hesitant to post it, wondering if you'd all think I was crazy for documenting it.. but I had so many fun comments, interesting stories, emails, etc., and I really enjoyed reading all your messages!!  Thank you for sharing YOUR stories with me!

I'm So Glad you enjoyed it, and we'll be back to stamping tomorrow...  watch for a SNEAK PEEK from the new catalog tomorrow!

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No Stamping... JUST BEES !!!

WHAT A CRAZY DAY ....  We had a bee swarm descend upon us .....just warning you now... if you don't like bees, you might want to divert to another blog.... 

I can't say that I am crazy about bees or that I even like them around.... but this was such an interesting event that I thought it was worthy of recording it here...

On Wed. afternoon, I heard  a crazy sound outside... a LOUD whirrring...  huh???  I looked around... then I LOOKED UP >>> OH MY GOSH>>> a SWARM of bees about 20 to 30 feet WIDE and about 20 feet up into the air !!!  I was FREAKED OUT !!!  I'll admit it.. I called the police (not 911) and asked what do to.. they directed me to a beekeepers association website where I could find names of beekeepers that would come take care of swarms or hives.  The bees settled down over the next 30 minutes or so and I spent the afternoon calling the beekeepers listed on the website... then the next day .....

ENTER JOHN SHOEMAKER... OUR HERO FOR THE DAY !!!

he promptly announces that he won't be needing a suit or netted hat...  OK>>>>>> Whatever you say John !!

So here is what the swarm looked like from peeking over our back fence:

this view is looking up at the back of our house from the street that runs behind our house:

Here are a few photos from different angles.... it was just the craziest thing to see up close!!

Every close up of the hive looked blurry... i think it's their moving wings!!

OK>>> so, back to John our Hero.... here is his gear:

He used a low horsepower shop vac to vacuum the bees into a 5 gallon bucket....

  
  After sucking up some of the bees, he quickly decided he needed a 2nd bucket!!  He filled 2 buckets...he estimated between 20,000 and 30,000 bees !!!!!!!!!!!!

He has over 100 hives and takes them around California to pollinate various crops. He also cultivates the honey and sells that at local fairs and farmers markets.

I know some of you are laughing at this CITY GIRL.. this is just a whole new world for someone like me who has never been on a farm or been around anything like this... 

He showed us the wax they had started to form for the honeycombs:

he was totally fearless... me on the otherhand.. I was a little more cautious!

Here I am with a neighbor and Jason talking to John ... see... I look a little concerned.. LOL 

here is our neighbor Sandy listening to the bees through the vacuum hose.. it sounded SO cool!

  

here is Eric listening to the bees in one of the buckets:

 
 
   So, Thank You Bees for the excitement....  and thank you John for rescuing them and taking them to a new home...  but bees.. please don't settle here again... this was enough excitement to last me a lonnnnnnnnnnnnng time ! :)

 

Island Floral Die birthday decorations

For my 50th birthday, my husband asked if I was going to want black decorations with "over the hill" and stuff like that..... I said NO.... I wanted pretty flowers!!  So we went with a tropical floral theme for the party!

I made a bunch of paper flowers using the Stampin' Up! Big Shot, Island Floral Die and the Fancy Flower Extra Large punch!!  I used up all scraps for these flowers and then put them around my cake ! :)

I put corduroy buttons in the centers, and I watercolored some of the flowers with reinkers and my Aquapainter.

of course, then I had to spritz them all with Vanilla Smooch Spritz :)
 

You would think my husband was trying for a bonfire!! LOL .. at least he didn't put 50 candles on it!

oh... it was soooooooooooo good.. chocolate cake and cream cheese frosting!! :)

Well, I survived the Big 5-0 ... and hubby wore his "50" jersey in my honor :)

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Birthday Cards, Thank You !!

Wow.. as of the day before my birthday (when I'm typing this), all of these cards have already arrived in the mail !!!!

 

I have not opened them yet... but I did open that one.. it arrived WAY early and i didn't even know it would be a bday card.. thank you Edie for that gorgeous card!

Thank you to EVERYONE for your wishes on my blog, on facebook and in the mail and in person!!  I am blessed beyond words and appreciate you all !!!!

I'm celebrating all weekend with family and friends... so good to be surrounded by those you love and by those who love you back :)  And so fun to always have a holiday weekend to celebrate!!

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to enter an order for my FABULOUS 50 FRIDAY giveaways!!!

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Fabulous Fifty Friday Celebration!!

 I'm celebrating my 50th birthday this Friday, and I am giving away LOTS OF FREE STUFF !!

All orders of $50 or more this week will be entered into my drawing to win one of the following FABULOUS prizes!

• 50 sheets of cardstock
• 50 yards of ribbon
• 50 buttons
• 50 brads
• a $50 Stampin' Up! shopping spree!!

All customer orders of $50 or more placed ONLINE between now and Midnight 5/28/10 will be entered into a drawing for those 5 fabulous prizes!  I will randomly pick 5 winners to receive the above 5 prizes!!

When I receive your online order confirmation, I will put your name in the drawing!  (only U.S. residents may place orders on my website).   A ticket with your name on it will go in the hat for EACH $50 ordered!  And don't forget the CLEARANCE RACK.. lots of great stuff there!

Remember, when you order $150 or more, you also get the HOSTESS BENEFITS!!

Drawing will be done on Sat. May 29, and I will notify the 5 winners via email.

Obviously I have been out of touch with the new look of cake decorating... check out these fun cakes I found on the internet!!

 
  
 
  

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Congrats to Joy, Saundra and Pam!

Today I have one of my Luv 2 Stamp Group meetings with my wonderful downline.  One of the things we are going to celebrate is the10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of Joy, Saundra and Pam!!  All 3 of those demonstrators have been in my group for 10 years !!!!  Last year we celebrated Christine's 10 year anniversary.. I am sooooo very blessed to have such amazing demonstrators in my group!! :)

When a member of my downline reaches 10 years, I give them a package of 10 of my favorite SU! goodies as my gift to them! ABOVE are the 3 packages for my gals!  Joy and Saundra will get their goodie pack today, and I have mailed Pam's to her.

We look forward to celebrating with you, Joy and Saundra !!! 

This is 2 weeks worth of cutting and prepping...we are making 7 projects at our meeting today !!  My Long Distance participants can expect their meeting packet in the mail later this week. 

Watch my blog this week for the projects, swaps, and FUN TIMES! :)

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